10 big lies (was RE: draft-whitehead-mime-xml-04)

Rob McDougall RMcDouga at JetForm.com
Wed Jun 10 00:17:11 BST 1998


Are the "10 big lies" posted on the internet anywhere?  I'd like to see
what the other 9 are :).

Rob

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Prescod [mailto:papresco at technologist.com]
Sent: Monday, June 08, 1998 12:34 PM
To: MURATA Makoto
Cc: XML Dev; ejw at ics.uci.edu; murata at fxis.fujixerox.co.jp
Subject: Re: draft-whitehead-mime-xml-04

[snip]

The idea that "sets of markup declarations" are really "DTDs" is one of
the
most pernicious misunderstandings in SGML and XML processing. I think
Eliot
calls it one of the 10 big lies.

[snip]

 Paul Prescod


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